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Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
Novelist
Writer
Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
Literature
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Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.
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Do you really have the ability to control all types of undead? Magnus asked. Can you really make a hundred shoes in a single night? I asked. Magnus smiled. Wrong kind of fairie.
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I enjoy my anger, it’s the only hobby I have.
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Sometimes the greatest wounds are the ones we try the hardest not to inflict.
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Zerbrowski said, I only ever understood one woman, and she was kind enough to marry me so I didn't have to decipher anyone else.
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There is some comfort in killing that which has hurt you, but it is cold comfort. It'll destroy things inside of you that the original pain wouldn't have harmed. Sometimes it's not a question of whether a piece of your soul is going to go missing, only which piece it's going to be.
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I wasn't crying, my eyes were running. My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombies all over my toys. Jesus.
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I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time
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Maybe you’re not willing to give up a lover who’s colder than you are.
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My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people
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Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you.
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We're making a list. And checking it twice. Edward shook his head.
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It makes me nervous when you keep answering all my questions with 'I don't know.' Me, too, I said.
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If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.
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Compromise is an imperfect act.
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She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said. No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.
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Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.
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Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.
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Love is never free ... It is the most expensive emotion we have.
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They be crazier than we are.
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